| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1901/02/14 | Churchill takes his seat in the House of Commons. | |
| 1901/02/18 | Churchill makes his maiden speech in the House of Commons, in which he bitterly criticizes the war in South Africa saying "if I were a Boer I hope I should be fighting in the field." | House of Commons, Palace of Westminster |
| 1906/01/13 | Winston Churchill is elected Member of Parliament for Manchester, Northwest, for the Liberals. | |
| 1907/04/00 | April-May. Churchill attends the Colonial Conference held in London. | |
| 1907/05/01 | Winston Churchill becomes Privy Counsellor. | |
| 1908/04/24 | Churchill is defeated at a by-election for Manchester, Northwest as a Liberal candidate. | |
| 1908/05/09 | Winston Churchill is elected Member of Parliament for Dundee, for the Liberals. | |
| 1910/01/00 | Churchill is reelected Member of Parliament for Dundee for the Liberals. | |
| 1910/02/14 | Winston Churchill is appointed Home Secretary. | |
| 1910/11/08 | Churchill sends army troops and Metropolitan police to Tonypandy, Wales, to maintain order during a mining strike. | Wales, United Kingdom |
| 1910/12/08 | Churchill is reelected Member of Parliament for Dundee for the Liberals. | |
| 1911/01/03 | W Churchill appears in person to observe the police siege of two anarchists barricaded in a house in Sidney Street, East London. | |
| 1914/07/28 | Churchill orders the British naval fleets to take up battle stations. | |
| 1914/10/03 | October 3-6. Churchill organizes and accompanies the expedition to defend Antwerp. | |
| 1916/03/07 | While on leave from the front, Churchill suffers a severe political setback when he condemns the government's conduct of the war in a speech in the House of Commons and calls for the return of Sir John Fisher as First Sea Lord. | House of Commons, Palace of Westminster |
| 1917/07/30 | Churchill is reelected Member of Parliament for Dundee for the Liberals. | |
| 1918/12/14 | Winston Churchill is reelected Member of Parliament for Dundee for the Liberals. | |
| 1922/11/15 | Churchill is defeated in the general election at Dundee, standing as a National Liberal candidate. He later writes, "I found myself without office, without a seat, without a party, and even without an appendix." | |
| 1924/10/29 | W Churchill is elected as a Member of Parliament for Epping as a Constitutionalist candidate. | |
| 1924/11/06 | Churchill is appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. Assuming any war was at least ten years away, Churchill strongly opposes the Admiralty's plans for building warships, the development of naval aviation and a naval base in Singapore. | 11, Downing Street Sw1, London |
| 1925/04/28 | April 28. In his first budget as Chancellor, Churchill returns Britain to the Gold Standard at the prewar parity. | |
| 1926/04/27 | Churchill presents his second budget as Chancellor to the House of Commons. | |
| 1926/07/07 | Churchill contributes in a raucous debate on the British Gazette in the House of Commons. He declares, "I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire." | House of Commons, Palace of Westminster |
| 1926/07/12 | In London, Churchill signs an agreement for the settlement of the War Debt of France to Great Britain. | |
| 1927/04/11 | W Churchill presents the budget to the House of Commons. | |
| 1928/04/24 | Winston Churchill delivers his fourth budget at the House of Commons in which the first British tax on petrol is introduced. | |
| 1929/04/15 | Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivers his fifth budget to the House of Commons. | |
| 1929/05/30 | Although Churchill is reelected as a Member of Parliament for Epping for the Conservatives in the general election, the Conservatives lose the election and he leaves cabinet office. | |
| 1931/01/27 | Winston Churchill resigns from the Conservative shadow cabinet over policy for India and enters the "wilderness." | |
| 1931/10/27 | Churchill is reelected as a Member of Parliament for Epping for the Conservatives in the general election. | |
| 1932/05/13 | In a speech to the House of Commons, Churchill warns against France and Germany being equal in military strength saying he would ask those who do, "Do you wish for war?" | House of Commons, Palace of Westminster |
| 1933/03/10 | In the House of Commons, Churchill opposes the government's proposals to reduce spending on the air force for the second year in a row. | |
| 1933/11/07 | Churchill warns that Germany has already begun to rearm in the House of Commons. | House of Commons, Palace of Westminster |
| 1934/11/28 | Churchill warns in a speech in the House of Commons that Germany will reach parity in air strength in 1935. | House of Commons, Palace of Westminster |
| 1935/07/09 | Churchill joins the Committee of Imperial Defence on Air Defence Research. | |
| 1935/11/14 | W Churchill is reelected as a Member of Parliament for Epping for the Conservatives. | |
| 1936/11/12 | Churchill makes a brilliant speech in the House of Commons in the defense debate. | |
| 1936/12/07 | Churchill can not make himself heard amid the uproar and is shouted down in the House of Commons as he pleads on the King's behalf. | House of Commons, Palace of Westminster |
| 1938/03/14 | Churchill speaks on the German annexation of Austria in the House of Commons. | House of Commons, Palace of Westminster |
| 1938/10/05 | Churchill denounces the Munich Agreement in the House of Commons as "a defeat without a war." | House of Commons, Palace of Westminster |
| 1940/05/08 | Churchill vigorously defends the government in the Norway debate in the House of Commons. | |
| 1940/05/28 | Churchill makes a statement in the House of Commons on the surrender of Belgium warning of "hard and heavy tidings to come." | |
| 1940/07/04 | Winston Churchill speaks on the destruction of the French fleet in the House of Commons. | |
| 1942/07/02 | Following the surrender of the British garrison at Tobruk, a motion of "No Confidence" in the Churchill government is debated in the House Commons. The motion is defeated 475 to 25. | |
| 1945/07/26 | The results of the general election are announced. The Conservatives are defeated and Clement Attlee succeeds Churchill as Prime Minister. Churchill is reelected as a Member of Parliament and becomes Leader of Opposition in the House of Commons. | |
| 1945/08/15 | August 15. Churchill speaks on the surrender of Japan in the House of Commons. | |
| 1950/02/23 | Although Churchill is reelected Conservative Member of Parliament for Woodford, the Labour Party under Attlee retain power in the general election. | |
| 1955/04/05 | At the age of eighty, Churchill resigns as Prime Minister. He declines the offer of a dukedom from Queen Elizabeth II to remain as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons. | Buckingham Palace, London |
| 1955/05/26 | Churchill is reelected Member of Parliament for Woodford for the Conservatives. | |
| 1959/10/08 | Churchill is reelected Member of Parliament for Woodford for the Conservatives. | |
| 1964/07/27 | Winston Churchill attends the House of Commons for the last time. | House of Commons, Palace of Westminster |
| 1964/10/15 | Churchill does not stand as a candidate at the October 15, 1964 general election and steps down as a Member of Parliament. |
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